Bresser, Philppa Lynn; Reed, Janet D.; Sathekge, Mike Machaba; Vorster, Mariza(Wiley Open Access, 2022-12)
Tuberculosis (TB) lesions in humans have been proven to be severely hypoxic with hypoxia leading to latency and dormancy of disease. Dormant TB lesions become less susceptible to standard TB treatment regimens with varying ...
Bresser, Philppa Lynn; Vorster, Mariza; Sathekge, Mike Machaba(Springer, 2021-02)
Non-invasive imaging of hypoxia plays a role in monitoring the body’s adaptive response or the development of pathology under hypoxic conditions. Various techniques to image hypoxia have been investigated with a shift ...
Bresser, Philppa Lynn; De Beer, Janeske; De Wet, Yolandi(Elsevier, 2015-02)
PURPOSE : A planar multi-gated cardiac blood pool acquisition is a non-invasive technique commonly used to measure left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). It is essential that the calculation of LVEF be accurate, ...
BACKGROUND : South African nuclear medicine imaging departments have been fortunate in being able to receive an uninterrupted supply of molybdenum-99 (99Mo)/technetium-99m (99mTc) generators. Nuclear medicine radiographers ...
